I swear to god, if anyone mentions strapping field artillery to the decks of the barges...
As someone with a career in the artillery, & more than a few days aboard landing craft I've been long amused by that one.
I swear to god, if anyone mentions strapping field artillery to the decks of the barges...
In retaliation Britain could invade the Freisian Islands.
"The English Navy is coming Sir."
"Oh S...t"
I swear to god, if anyone mentions strapping field artillery to the decks of the barges...
.. "And what are the germans going to do besides die screaming?"
I swear to god, if anyone mentions strapping field artillery to the decks of the barges...
From this thread it appears they
"Sir! The enemy is very slowly gaining on us!"
I also like how the pro-sealion side hasn't brought up their brilliant tactic to defend against Royal Navy vessels yet... which is in the event of the detection of an unknown vessel at night, the soldiers aboard should fire all their weapons at it. The Royal Navy wouldn't even need to sortie, because the invasion fleet is going to massacre itself.
As someone with a career in the artillery, & more than a few days aboard landing craft I've been long amused by that one.
Unless in the mind of the usual suspects the triumphant tuetonics sweep all before them, the RN ships exploding at the mere sight of a Barge loaded with Germans, meanwhile, the luftwaffe, now equipped with some fighter with an obscure engine that never worked properly (it works now) shoot the RAF down within seconds. Allowing Stuka's to dive bomb the RN which is obligingly steaming in a straight line at 10 knots.
Even if all that happens, you're still pitting Light infantry units scattered up and down the coast against prepared defenses and armored units.
True but this is Wehraboo's we're dealing with here. The British army will be basically Dad's army without the canned laughter.
The PLA did experiment on strapping land artillery on civilian cargo ships to provide fire support to amphibious forces.
The conclusion is that investing in the air and the missile force would be more effective.
True but this is Wehraboo's we're dealing with here. The British army will be basically Dad's army without the canned laughter.
Don’t matter who is holding the rifle, even though the majority of the HG were retired soldiers, when a .303 round hits a German soldier it will still kill him.
I swear to god, if anyone mentions strapping field artillery to the decks of the barges...
Indeed, and a good portion of the HG had two highly relevant skills to the scenario of invasion, namely, digging in like absolute bastards, and shooting Germans.